Housing is always a hot topic in Iowa City. And it’s one I write about from time to time. Most recently, I wrote a couple of posts about how both YIMBY and NIMBY positions get it wrong.
I’ll continue that theme in this post.
Obviously housing is one of our most basic needs. It stands alongside food and water as one of the essentials. But it’s also an issue that brings to bear many of the central problems with life in an advanced capitalist country full of inequalities of wealth and power. It also shows our political shortcomings.
Nowhere do we see all this more clearly than in two recent housing developments in Iowa City.
